Bo Didley Manuel MonleÌÎ_n and scholar who researches identity

and scholar who researches identity in popular culture through the comics medium

Fort Marion National Monument

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Created by Albert M Bender and published by the Federal Art project between 1936 and 1939 as a color silkscreen

showing stylized man holding a gun against a backdrop of tenement buildings

Bo Didley Manuel MonleÌÎ_n and scholar who researches identity"Thief at the Crossroads" is a set of 20 portraits of legendary blues musicians by John Jennings. The set of digital mixed media images is inspired by artist John Akomfrah's 1996 film "The Last Angel of History" which deals with the culture of Afrofuturism and how it relates to techno music inspired by the black experience in urban spaces. These images seek to reinvigorate the genius of the Blues and give praise to the pioneering Prometheus like